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J. H. WHITE.

RAZOR STROP- Patented Mar. 11, 1884.

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. WHITE, OF NORTH EAST, MARYLAND.

RAZO R-STRO P.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,830, dated March11, 1884.

Application filed January 17, 1884. (No model.)

land, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Razor-Strops;and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadtothe accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of.reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a side view of a razor-strep provided with my improvement.Fig. 2'is aside view at right angles to the View in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, acentral section in a plane indicated by the line-a2 min Fig. 1; Fig. 4,a transverse section in a plane indicated by the line 3 1 Fig. 1; Fig.5, a transverse section in a plane indicated by the line 2 2, Fig. 1.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

In the drawings, A represents the body or hone part of the razor-strop;B, a strop-belt stretched lengthwise on two sides of the main part andat some distance therefrom; and G,

to a nut-plate, D, in which a screw-shank, E,

in the handle screws, substantially as shown.

The belt need not be separately secured to the nut-plate; thescrew-shank holds it securely. At this end of the strop the belt isstretched .over a metallic plate, G, screwed or riveted to the end ofthe wooden body A, as seen in Fig. 4, and having its edges projectbeyond the sides of the body, as shown, to keep the belt at the properdistance. There is a hole, 0, in the center of this plate, in which theend (I of the screw-shank E enters, there being a shoulder,'f, on thescrew-shank to bear against the plate G, for stretchingthe belt by theaction of the screw on turning the handle. It is this plate G and theconstruction of the same with the shouldered screw-handle O and nut -plate D that constitutes my invention. The construction is very strong,durable, light, and cheap. The plate G, being not so wide as thehone-body A, as shownin Fig. 4., also leaves the hone entirely unimpededwhen honing a razor, and the said hone is made easily and cheaply from asimple rectangular piece of wood.

I claim as my invention The combination of the plate G, rigidly securedto and projecting beyond the body A, nut-plate D, and handle 0, providedwith the shouldered screw-shank E, substantially as and for the purposeherein specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN H. \VHITE.

lVitnesses:

ANDREW ANDERSON, HARRY T. GRANT.

